The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 21 1978--Page 3
Artist turns out sellable
By MITCH CANTOR
If you're among the art enthusiasts who search for
junk, don't waste your time browsing through thousan-
ds of items lining Ann Arbor's streets today and
tomorrow, just head straight for Bill Heise's Art Fair
booth on North University near State Street.
Heise, who creates figures by welding together
pieces of discarded metal, calls his art Found Metal
Sculpture.
"IT'S ACTUALLY junk sculpture," Heise said.
"Most of the stuff I find in junkyards, in scrapyards."
IHeise's sculpturesinclude such items as old rakes,
shovels, tractor seats and hoes. Though he gets almost
all his material from refuse areas, Heise said he
sometimes buys antiques to embellish his works.
Supplied with a hoe, a shovel, and a few other scraps,
Heise might turn the worthless cache of metal into a
valuable sculpture, like his butterfly which sells for
$1,200.
HEISE'S EXHIBIT is one of the more unusual atihis
year's Art Fair. "I'd say there are five to ten people
here incorporating found objects in their work," he
said.
All of the found objects used in Heise's works are
relatively unchanged by the artist.
"I try not to distort the original piece of metal too
much. I may cut it, but I won't shape it or bend it," the
36-year-old artist said. Heise added that all of his metal
is treated with boiled linseed oil.
HEISE REPORTED he doesn't like to work too long
on any one piece. "The more I work on a piece the less
successful it is. The key to a successful piece of work is
knowing when to stop," according to Heise.
Most of his sculptures are over two feet tall since the
sculptor feels restricted with smaller figures.
"The smaller the piece-I'm more limited in the
shapes (of the metal) I find," he said. "I can use
smaller shapes in a large piece, but I can't use large
shapes on smaller pieces."
HEISE SAID HIS first Found Object Sculpture was
simply the product of some welding he'd done. Soon he
was creating one sculpture after another.
"You start one and get another idea for another,"
Heise said.
Though he taught high school art for ten years he
gave it up because he didn't consider it worth the effort
involved. "It's too exhausting; overworked and under-
paid."
THE STATE University of New York graduate has
been concentrating fully on found object sculptures for
several years.
Heise, who says he sells nearly everything he
creates, peddles most of his works at art fairs like Ann
Arbor's annual event. Thirty per cent of his sculptures
are sold by galleries, and the rest is unloaded from his
studio in Vermont.
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Wine for-all tastes
Come next month University students will no
longer be able to boast about drinking an exclusive
wine names after their school. John Coleman, who
earlier this summer brought us "M Go Blue Wine",
plans to introduce four more brands aimed at
spirited college drinkers. The new wines will be
Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX
THIS ANIMAL SCULPTURE, on display at the Art Fair yesterday, was made using a variety of scrap
metal. Inset: Bill Heise, artist who created the animal and other "Found Metal Sculptures."
INT ELLIGENCE CHARTER HEARINGS:
Harvard head slams CIA
By JEFFREY WOLFF
Special to The Daily
WASHINGTON - In testimony before the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Activities yesterday,
Harvard University President Derek Bok asked
Congress to put a stop to Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) "operational activities" on college campuses
which include "covert recruiting."
Bok's request came as a result of CIA refusal to
abide by those provisions in the Harvard guidelines
concerning university relationships with intelligence-
agencies.
BOK OFFERED the Select Committee several let-
ters from CIA Director Stansfield Turner which state
that the Agency cannot abide by Harvard's restrictions
on CIA covert recruiting and other operational ac-
tivities at the prestigious university.
"The relationship between U.S foreign intelligence
agencies and universities must be structured in ways
that protect the integrity of universities and the
academic profession and safeguard the freedom and
objectivity of scholarship," said Bok.
The Select Committee solicited Bok's testimony as
part of its hearings dealing with the Senate's proposed
intelligence charter (S. 2525) which seeks, for the first
time since the National Security Act of 1947, to define
and control the activities of U.S. intelligence agencies.
This was the time the Select Committee has invited
academics to-testify on CIA campus activities.
HARVARD AND several other universities adopted
guidelines after recent revelations that the CIA has
used professors to recruit and gather information
about students attending American universities. It has
been revealed that this often entails a summary of the
See HARVARD, Page 7
called "Fighting Irish," "Rose Bowl Red," "Spar-
tan Magic," and "Go Bucks." Coleman says he's
sold 7,000 bottles of M Go Blue since June 15. Now
we're waiting for Coleman to market "Pasadena
Pick Me Up," a wine to sootite the post-Rose Bowl
blues suffered so often by University football fans.
Pursell meets dissident's wife
Ann Arbor congressman Carl Pursell met Mon-
day with Avital Shcharansky, wife of Soviet
dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, at a press con-
ference. She recounted her thoughts on the convic-
tion of her husband and asked for Congressional
help in pressuring Russia to honor human rights
commitments. Republican Pursell is co-
sponosoring legislation to move the 1980 Olympic
games from Moscow in protest of Soviet treatment
of dissidents.
Hannenings -
conjunction with the Art Fair, courtesy'of Eclipse
Jazz ... State Senator John Otterbacher will speak
on "Politics of Mental Health: Informal
Colloquium" from 2-4 in the East Conference Room
on the fourth floor of the Rackham building .. .
pack upa sack dinner and head for the International
Center (603 E. Madison) where a group will leave
for a picnic at the Waterloo Recreation Area at 3.
Bring a car if you can, otherwise transportation will
be provided ... the Twilight in the Park Program is
sponsoring entertainment in the Liberty/Division
Street Park from 6:30-9 . . . take a trip back to
childhood and drop by the Ann Arbor Public Library
on S. Fifth, where bedtime stories will be read from
7:30-8. The readings are geared to ages three
through seven, but anyone can attend . . . The
University Chamber Orchestra, with Paul Makano-
witzky conducting, will perform at 8 in the
Rackham auditorium ... and, finally, dance to the
live music of Dick Siegel and his amazing Ministers
of Melody from 9 til 1:30 in the Michigan Union
ballroom.
continue to be dominated by art as the Art
Fair enters its third day. Exhibitors will display On the outside.
their works through Saturday on South University, The weather so fas hasn't been too hard on the Art
East University, North University, Liberty, Fair. Yes, its been hot, but not unbearable. And today
Maynard, and Main Streets ... the Earthworks Jaz- this adequate weather should continue, with highs
ztet and Don Savoie will provide musical enter- in the upper 80s. The skies will be partly sunny and
ainmen+from 2-5 at Main and WilliamS t+rets in nn'theasunriseadif nmarainfalls-